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  • Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... . Are you planning to extend Basic to support the host hardware ... just meant to run Spectrum Basic programs fast and make it ... the PC's timer, so it'll run BASIC as fast as ... the speccy community, although loading BASIC from a .sna or .z80 ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…

    ... . The third part is a timer and keyboard controller part. There ... long waiting cycle in the timer routine, because the engine is ... machine code, not some compiled basic program. :)))

    If you ...
    edy.wss edy.wss February 2003 Games
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    Cross ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now prefer ... , I implemented a "push-many-timer" scroller, great fun&speed ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • How to cheat in LocomotionI like Locomotion and when I played it I always used this little trick. If you press and hold FIRE while moving pieces of the railroad track the trai…

    Didn't the timer ran down in this way???

    P.S. see my BASIC-ONE-LINER version of this game on [url="http://basicchallenge.tripod.com/2004/entries.html"]http://basicchallenge.tripod.com/2004/entries.html[/url]
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2004 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • hmmmmmmmThis forum used to astound me with feats of technical prowess and stuff i never understood these days its frequented by peeps who cant run mame or b…

    ... ... I can program a Spectrum (Basic and a bit of mcode ... in HTML, set a video timer, set up and play MAME ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…

    ... from Proxima have a unigue basic header - it doesn't load ... the screen, but the basic oader is big around 8 ... . Also it has the countdown timer.

    The first time ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 October 2005 Games
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... it is part of the Basic operating system. And, naturally, ... NMI interrupt generated by a timer would be the expiry ... timeslice. A check on the timer would determine which occurred.
    basic workspace, something totally useless to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…

    ... [B][I]very[/I][/B] basic and crude, but I think ... b/w screens), and a timer to switch between the two ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... of a watchdog timer (a timer that is automatically ... is the mode Spectrum Basic runs in and the ... keyboard and update the timer in system variable FRAMES ... Under normal operation the Basic System is in "im ... rate.
    [*] The Basic system's interrupt routine at ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... />
    - Accessing a high-resolution timer (FRAMES)
    - Changing the length ... you think of that C** BASIC rubbish, where, IIRC, you have ...
    GOC GOC July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... the frame. Or maybe a timer or two that could be ... each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... the frame. Or maybe a timer or two that could be ... each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... uses for a general purpose timer.

    [quote]
    (8k ... I'd definitely keep the basic keywords printed on the keys ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • VB Emulator UpgradeHas anyone upgraded the VB 6.0 open source of either VBspec or VB81 to the free VB Express 2005 Edition? [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr…

    ... />
    This walkthrough requires Visual Basic 6.0 to be installed ... />
    To create the Visual Basic 6.0 application
    Open ... Visual Basic 6.0. On the File ... folder.

    Add a Timer control to the form. Set ...
    dalmudlee dalmudlee October 2006 Emulators
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... am using implemented in Sam Basic ( of all things ) that work ... />
    I realise chucking in timer routines to slow it down ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong December 2006 Development
  • Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …

    ... copy protection that checks the timer. And all Ultimate games have ... only be run from 48 Basic.
    The trick is loading ... address and paging in 48 basic mode, then moving the data ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Games
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... be used for a countdown timer. :)

    [QUOTE=BloodBaz;189395 ... had a limited knowledge of BASIC, and the fact that I ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…

    ... am calling the code from basic, but its within the code ... IY do with regards to basic?[/QUOTE]


    When ... to raise
    an internal timer!
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2007 Development
  • Of soldering and whatnot.So. It looks like if I'm going to have any sort of active retrogaming habit in the future, I need to learn a bit more about the nuts and bolts. Emula…

    ... 5v circuits.
    - Some 555 timer ICs.
    - A 7805 ... registers, latches, gates and a timer for that.

    ... , type "555 timer tutorial", and discover the basic circuits you can ... long as you understand the basic physical processes involved, you ...
    Winston Winston February 2008 Hardware
  • Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.

    ... 1 live only, no score, timer only.
    Played it to ... lot of slack. Even batari BASIC is a fair bit harder ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2008 Development
  • SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…

    ... /> Config: BASICCount=10
    Config: BASIC=1
    Config: CLS=1 ... \Barbarian II.Scr
    Set timer to 1 ms
    [/CODE ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…

    ... /> Config: BASICCount=10
    Config: BASIC=0
    Config: CLS=1 ... \Donkey Kong.Scr
    Set timer to 1 ms
    Closing ... /> Freeing internal DIB
    Resetting timer
    Releasing Mutex 1884
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why did Ultimate games load like this?What I remember about the early Ultimate games was the unusual way they loaded. You'd get the BASIC bootstrap loader, then a SCREEN$, then a main bl…

    ... so the loader sets the timer to a specific value (lsb ... , msb=131) and even Sinclair BASIC is quick enough to do ... blocks with POKEs in the BASIC loader. It's quicker than ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2010 Games
  • Two new programs from Mitchell Software :)Hi everyone, What a lovely day it is on the Isle of Wight, bright sunny and cold. If you head over to my website and look into the software sectio…

    ... about electronics and the 555 timer. Since then i started to ... real programming in c++ and basic. This went on for some ... if i cant get the basic version to work, a 2bit ...
    Robin Robin March 2010 Games
  • Pacmania on +3 diskEven after the game has loaded up, the disk won't stop spinning. Anyone know what's going on?

    ... loaded and the motor off timer relies on interrupts to measure ... disk
    2) enter +3 basic and type MERGE "disk"
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae May 2010 Hardware
  • Outside world interfaceHi all, Im a newbie! 30 years old, bought up programming spectrums! I have no idea how to program PCs and want to write a program to control a se…

    ... .

    Guesser, a meachanical timer just isnt intelegent enough.
    BASIC!

    Wish me well ...
    EccentricDyslexic EccentricDyslexic July 2010 Hardware
  • Problem with pokesI can delete a poke as I entered a game?:-? For example: I entered a poke of infinite time, but for the next level, the timer to reach zero.As I ca…

    ... the next level, the timer to reach zero.As ... can do to make the timer function again?

    ... print peek command from Sinclair BASIC.

    For instance ... default value to restore your timer back to default. So ... ,24 to return the timer back to how it ...
    Hercules Hercules September 2010 Games
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